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Is there a way to set the pocket shelf with just the slate or do you have to have the rails? I have the table apart and the rails are away for covering. The pocket shelfs are shaved and make the pockets extemly forgiving. The table spent part of it's life in a pool hall I think. I'm thinking of replacing the wood in the corner and side pockets of the table to make it more standard. I'm aware of the 40% ball exposure with a ball sitting at the point where it just stays on the table sighting down the rail.

I'm wondering if there is a standard cutout on the slate for the corner and the side pocket. I attached a pic of what I was thinking.
 

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Bblock said:
Is there a way to set the pocket shelf with just the slate or do you have to have the rails? I have the table apart and the rails are away for covering. The pocket shelfs are shaved and make the pockets extemly forgiving. The table spent part of it's life in a pool hall I think. I'm thinking of replacing the wood in the corner and side pockets of the table to make it more standard. I'm aware of the 40% ball exposure with a ball sitting at the point where it just stays on the table sighting down the rail.

I'm wondering if there is a standard cutout on the slate for the corner and the side pocket. I attached a pic of what I was thinking.
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What kind of table you're talking about has a lot to do with the slate pocket shelfs used on that kind of table, for example a gandy has the pocket shelf cut so shallow that balls can't sit in the corner pockets without falling in with no more than 10-15% of the ball in the pocket.
 
I'm told it is a Brunswick Aviator from the 1920's. I am trying to verify that it is a Brunswick table. It does look like the pic from the Brunswick site but the head plate has been removed. There is a plate but I'm told it more than likely is a plate from the company that serviced that tables at the pool hall. I have a model or serial number that is stamped and painted on the rails and frame. The patent label is still on the head board of the frame. It is a 9' table.
 
As big as them pockets are, a deeper slate shelf is not really going to be much of an improvement. That's an old antique with the wooden pocket angles instead of slate so I guess you could always make new wooden pockets a little deeper than the ones already on the table, but short of that, there's nothing you're going to do to improve the pocket shelf because as you lengthen the pocket shelf you're also going to reduce the drop pocket opening for the balls to fall into the drop pockets.

Glen
 
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